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Not quite a year after Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale wrapped its six-season run, the sequel series, The Testaments, kicked off with a bang, dropping its first three episodes on Hulu this week. Based on Margaret Atwood’s books The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments, these TV shows are steeped in their own lore. So you may be wondering whether you need to have watched all six seasons of The Handmaid’s Tale to understand what’s happening in The Testaments — especially if you started watching the original show, but fell off at some point. Fortunately, by now, the showrunners are pretty adept…

Over the last couple of years, the Triple-I Initiative has established itself as a showcase that’s worth keeping an eye on. While bigger events like the Xbox Developer Direct, Sony’s State of Play livestreams, and Geoff Keighley’s various shows shine a light on mostly bigger games, the Triple-I Initiative does a great job in highlighting a curated collection of titles from smaller studios and presenting them in an easily digestible format.Back for its third year, you can catch almost an hour of reveals, world premieres, and updates for upcoming games today. Here’s when and how you can tune in for…

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for September 3rd, 2024. In today’s article, I have a few more reviews for you. Some lengthy thoughts on Castlevania Dominus Collection, a look at Shadow of the Ninja – Reborn, and some quick critiques of a pair of Pinball FX tables that recently arrived as DLC. After that, we check out the new releases of the day including the quirky and cool Bakeru, then roll into the latest sales and expiring discounts for the day. Let’s get into it! Reviews & Mini-Views Castlevania Dominus Collection ($24.99) Say what you will…

Earlier today, open-world action game Samson arrived on Steam to mixed reviews and a lot of complaints about bugs and broken animations. In response, the game’s creative director, Christofer Sundberg, published a letter apologizing to players and promising that improvements and fixes were coming. Launched on April 8, Samson is an ambitious but messy open-world action game focused on gritty melee encounters and heavy-feeling car combat. As I explained in my review, Samson has some neat ideas in it, but it’s a slog to play due to some bad design choices, optimization issues, and lots of bugs and glitches. And…

Wizards of the Coast is continuing to use its Unearthed Arcana playtest material to bring ideas from Dungeons & Dragons 3.0/3.5 into the 2024 5th edition ruleset. The April 2 release, “Villainous Options,” borrows rules from the 2004 book Libris Mortis: The Book of the Undead for slowly turning your living character undead and offers a Pestilence Domain for Clerics that’s reminiscent of the Vermin Lord in 2002’s Book of Vile Darkness. But the most diabolically fun option is a new one: the Circle of the Titan druid, which lets you protect nature by turning into an enormous monster. Circle…

Season 3 introduces the Lost Outpost event to Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Warzone. This new event tasks you with collecting beacons and trading them for care package rewards. In this guide, we’ll explain how the Lost Outpost event works and how to earn all the rewards, including an operator skin for Samuels, the season’s new sniper rifle, a shotgun weapon blueprint, and plenty of double XP tokens.Content-wise, Season 3 of Black Ops 7 and Warzone includes a brand-new battle pass, more maps, and additional game modes. Standard battle royale arrives to Warzone’s Avalon map, and Verdansk gets…

With August in the rear-view mirror, taking the Young Avengers with it, we’re about due for another season in Marvel Snap (Free). And indeed, a new one has kicked off today! What is the theme, you might be wondering? Why it’s the best kind of Marvel theme! The deadly… the terrifying… the Amazing Spider-Season!  BONESAW IS READY! Sorry, Bonesaw isn’t in this season. Maybe someday. But there are some cool new cards and locations, so let’s check them out! This season is a bit of a doozy as it is introducing a new type of card ability: Activate. With Activate,…

Starfield makes its big debut on PlayStation 5 this week alongside a free update for all platforms and a new expansion called Terran Armada that adds a new robot army faction. I hope it’s better than the sci-fi RPG’s underwhelming first DLC, Shattered Space. I ended up playing through all of that campaign, which included a scientific experiment gone awry on the home world of religious zealots, and enjoyed very little of it. In fact, I’ve never especially loved Starfield and its weirdly expansive but archaic form of ambient questing. Yet I’ve played a surprising amount of it while dropping…

Wardogs is an upcoming multiplayer FPS game from Bulkhead, which developed the once-successful Battalion 1944. Described as “tactical all-out warfare,” the team is adamant that Wardogs will occupy a middle ground in the genre between arcade-like shooters such as Call of Duty and Battlefield, and hardcore simulators like Arma or Escape From Tarkov. Wardogs needs to do its talking on the battlefield, so to speak, but it does have potential. There are a number of intriguing mechanics being promised, one of which allows you to essentially become an arms dealer in the endgame, selling weapons to your teammates as soon…

There aren’t many video game worlds quite like Crimson Desert’s thanks to its sprawling open world, and it can become even more expansive and special with the use of mods. Since the launch of Crimson Desert, modders have put their heads down and come up with some truly impressive creations that aim to enhance all levels of the game. From making the world even more pleasurable to explore, to fixing some of the unintuitive controls, to adding new gameplay elements, the sky is the limit for Crimson Desert mods.While you can spend your time browsing the entirety of Nexus Mods,…